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Fourth of July fireworks show draws largest ever crowds Chief Harris says weather good. Crowds were good. No trouble. Wonderful fireworks show By Ed Waggener The Fourth of July fireworks display last night at the Adair County Fair, may have drawn it's biggest crowd of celebrants ever. It was a coming together which may have been even more inspirational than the show which followed. The event climaxed a beautiful day in Columbia and followed a paid concert, which filled the parking lot and much of the infield before the start of the fireworks display at 9:00pm. "The crowd outside the fairgrounds was much larger than at the concert," Columbia Police Chief Mark Harris said. He concurred that the number of spectators appeared to be up. "It was a great night," he said. "The weather was good. The crowds were good. There was no trouble and it was a wonderful fireworks show." Harris said that the newest member of the Department, Safety Officer Bill Bailey, said he was able to watch the fireworks from his home at Vester. Cars jammed every accessible parking space Fairground Street from Wain Street to Green Hills Road. The Adair County UK Extension Parking lot was filled. From the fairgrounds, the look up into the Lindsey campus and Young Street was like a giant stadium with cars, pickups, vans and campers directed toward the fairgrounds. Up on Adair Avenue in the Young Addition, at the Columbia United Methodist manse, several members of the congregation took Pastor David Alexander up on his invitation, extended in the Sunday, July 1, service to come see the event from his yard. Wain and Oak Streets were packed. An high points as far away as Haven Hill Cemetery on 206, Bull Run Road, Pelly Lane, and Campbellsville Road were used as vantage points. One of the niftiest fireworks viewing locations was the second floor balcony at the home of Donald Gene Burton, which gives the same advantage for watching Adair County Fairgrounds events as Sheffield and Waveland Avenue residents have for watching the Chicago Cubs games at Wrigley Field from their rooftops. If there were any rooftop spectators, we didn't see them, but in all likelihood, that was a strategy we just didn't see. Picnic blankets were spread on the Lindsey lawn, and many took advantage of refreshments brought in coolers and picnic hampers. Almost every house in the Young Addition had spectators with outdoor furniture set up on porches, patios, yards and carports and driveways. At the corner of Waterworks and Fairgrounds Street, nearly 30 people were gathered in one yard to watch the pyrotechnics. On Green Hills Road, every available parking place from KY 206 to the Russell Creek Bridge was taken, and across the bridge, in Orby Yarberry's Produce Store, the parking lot was filled. Cars even lined a big part the deadend Sulphur Swimming Hole Road. Spectators even lined the parking lot of the Columbia Church of Christ at Lowe's Lane and and Jamestown Street. As if the massive fireworks demonstration at the Fairgrounds were enough, hundreds of other smaller fireworks displays came from homes, as Adair Countians joined in a fireworks boom which is seeing the industry approach $1 billion in annual sales, according to one Tv show last night. This story was posted on 2007-07-05 09:03:32
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